A White House press release sent out Monday appeared to contain a paragraph that was also used in an ExxonMobil press release posted earlier that same day, according to Mother Jones. But, according to BuzzFeed News, and as noted in the press releases, the ExxonMobil expansion actually began back in 2013. “Today’s news is further evidence of the country’s spirit of optimism, boosting job growth.”According to CNN, a White House official admitted to taking sentences from the Exxon release to incorporate into their own. The similarities were noted by Washington Post writer Christopher Ingraham, who tweeted screen grabs of each release and highlighted the verbatim paragraphs. Related: Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Was Also One of the World’s Biggest Oil Moguls

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White House praises ExxonMobil with a paragraph copied and pasted from an Exxon press release

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Thank you @exxonmobil.”Buy American & hire American are the principles at the core of my agenda, which is: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! Investments began in 2013 and are expected to continue through at least 2022.”White House press release (left) contains full paragraph copied verbatim from Exxon press release (right). The White House, last month, misspelled Prime Minister Theresa May’s name three times in an official schedule of her visit to the US. A statement from the White House congratulating oil giant ExxonMobil on the expansion of its operations in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to lift an entire paragraph from the company’s press release. Investments began in 2013 and are expected to continue through at least 2022.”On Twitter, US President Donald Trump, whose secretary of state Rex Tillerson was Exxon’s chief executive up until December, said: “Buy American & hire American are the principles at the core of my agenda, which is: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!